Schools3

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
770348521
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Carmel, CA, USA
Phone
8316252498
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$79,866
Expenses
$76,595
Assets
$40,848

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRUCE NICHOLSON (President)
  • TORY RAGGETT (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • DAVID HATTON (Member)
  • BRUCE NICHOLSON (President)
  • ANN KEEBLE (Secretary, CFO)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Specifically, this corporation is organized to provide educational opportunities to youths in developing countries. Schools3 will provide assistance where there is the need for, and the desire for, that assistance without consideration for the location of that developing country or for the political structure of its governing body. Schools3 is a non-profit organization without religious, political, or governmental affiliation.

What it reported doing in 2025

Schools3 supports school construction in Africa and Central America. Volunteers from the local communities, with the help from a few paid skilled laborers, build the schools. The Ministries of Education provide and pay for the teachers and school supplies. These are public schools owned by the local communities open to all children.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.7%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.7% of revenue deployed
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.